Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems

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Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Fraunhofer FOKUS
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Institute-Building at Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee
Focus Information and Communications Technology
DirectorsProf. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth; Dr. Tom Ritter
Staff450
Location
Berlin
,
Germany
Website www.fokus.fraunhofer.de

The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, or FOKUS, is an organization of the Fraunhofer Society. [1] Headquartered in Berlin (Charlottenburg), the institute is engaged in applied research and development in the field of Information and Communications Technology. [2] The institute is jointly led by Prof. Manfred Hauswirth and Dr. Tom Ritter. Manfred Hauswirth also holds a chair in at the Technische Universität Berlin. [3] Dr. Tom Ritter is the institute's deputy director. [4]

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History

FOKUS was founded in 1988 as a research establishment for Open Communication Systems and an institute of the former "Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung GmbH" (GMD, Society for Mathematics and Data Processing). Since the merger of GMD with Fraunhofer in July 2001, FOKUS has been an institute of the Fraunhofer Society. In 2012, the three ICT institutes FOKUS, FIRST and ISST Berlin were brought together under the name of Fraunhofer FOKUS. [5]

In October 2014, Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth was appointed Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. [6] The executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has decided to appoint Dr. Tom Ritter as deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS. The computer scientist took over his position in November 2019 and supports the managing director of the institute, Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth, in his various tasks. [7]

Main research areas

Fraunhofer FOKUS develops vendor-neutral solutions for ICT systems. The institute focusses on practice-oriented research and development of digital interconnectivity. Fraunhofer FOKUS cooperates with business enterprises and public administration to support digitisation through research. It also carries out research into some of the key challenges to social development and the smart cities of the future, such as access to information, the sustainable and efficient use of resources, networked mobility and a modern public administration system. Research activities focus on inter-operable, user-centred domain and inter-organizational solutions. [2]

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), for example, which has become the standard for Voice over IP and Internet telephony, was originally developed at Fraunhofer FOKUS. Fraunhofer FOKUS also played a significant role in the introduction of the new ID card in Germany in 2010. [8] [9]

Business Units

The success of the institute is based on an organization comprising different business units: [10]

Infrastructure

In 2019, FOKUS employed 450 people, including 170 students and interns. The Fraunhofer FOKUS budget in 2019 was 33 million euros. 23.2 million euros was spent on personnel, 8.3 million euros on equipment and materials and 0.9 million euros on investments. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. "Fraunhofer in Berlin und Brandenburg". Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 Fraunhofer FOKUS. "About FOKUS". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. ↑ TU Berlin. "Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Professuren: Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth". Technische Universität Berlin. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS. "Tom Ritter". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  5. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS. "Historical developments of FOKUS". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS (12 September 2014). "Prof. Manfred Hauswirth becomes new Director of Fraunhofer FOKUS". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS (25 September 2020). "Organization Fraunhofer FOKUS Head of Institute". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  8. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS. "Contest: New ideas for eID". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  9. ↑ FOCUS Online, dpa (18 October 2010). "Bundesadler mit Chip unterm Flügel". FOCUS online. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  10. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS. "FOKUS Organization". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  11. ↑ Fraunhofer FOKUS. "Facts and figures". Fraunhofer FOKUS. Retrieved 25 September 2020.

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